Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Johnson, Henry Stuart April 8, 1875 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, published by the Honolulu Star Bulletin, Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

HENRY STUART JOHNSON, Railway Manager and Engineer. Leaving a position as 
mining engineer in Colorado in 1899, H. Stuart Johnson came to Hawaii to 
assist in the construction of the street railway system of the Honolulu Rapid 
Transit Co., Ltd., of which he is now manager, and during the intervening 
years he has been engaged on several of the most important engineering 
projects undertaken on the Island of Oahu.
  Until 1906, Mr. Johnson was assistant engineer in charge of construction for 
the street railway company, and he then became assistant engineer directing 
the building of the plant and distributing system for the Honolulu Gas Co., 
Ltd. When this work was completed he went to the Koolau Railway Co. for a 
year, and served another year as assistant city and county engineer of 
Honolulu. He was engaged with the United States engineers in charge of the 
construction of the twelve-inch mortar battery at Diamond Head, and from 1909 
to 1912 he was again with the Honolulu Rapid Transit Co. as engineer of 
construction and maintenance of way. Leaving this position in 1912, he spent a 
year as engineer with the Loan Fund Commission of Oahu, directing highway 
construction, and then returned to the Honolulu Rapid Transit Co., being 
appointed manager in 1918.
  During the World war, Mr. Johnson was an officer of the First Hawaiian 
Infantry, National Guard. He is a Mason, a member of the American Society of 
Civil Engineers, a director of the Chamber of Commerce, past president of the 
Rotary Club, and a member of the Oahu Country Club.
  Born in Newburyport, Mass., April 8, 1875, the son of Harrison Gray and 
Harriet (Peabody) Johnson, his education was received in the public schools of 
Denver, Colo., and he studied engineering under George A. Laird, member of the 
American Institute of Mechanical Engineers, and J. P. Rohrer, member of the 
American Society of Civil Engineers. In 1914 Mr. Johnson married Zoe Lucille 
Watkins in Kingman, Ariz.


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